Man Charged With Armed Robbery

POMPANO BEACHLIGHTHOUSE POINT — A Pompano Beach man was arrested Saturday after police said he beat another man with a tree branch while robbing him of $12.

Emanuel Warren, 30, of Northwest 27th Avenue, was charged with armed robbery. He was taken the Broward County Jail and held without bond.

Police said Warren attacked a pedestrian as he was walking in the 1900 block of Northwest Ninth Street. Warren hit the man repeatedly with a three-foot branch until the victim surrendered his money, police said.

The victim was taken to Imperial Point Hospital and treated for lacerations on the head.

MAN CHARGED WITH BURGLARY, AUTO THEFT

A man was arrested Sunday after a woman said she awoke to find the stranger standing beside her bed, police said.

The woman said she chased Pierre Dario Francillon, 27, a transient, from her house in the 100 block of Northeast Fifth Street. Police said they arrested Francillon on Northeast Second Avenue and brought him back to the woman to be identified.

The woman said Francillon had been driving a flatbed truck and parked across the street. A computer check of the tags listed the truck as stolen.

Francillon was charged with burglary and auto theft. He was being held on $3,500 bond at the Broward County Jail.

The pair was sitting on a bench waiting for a bus at the Oceanside Shopping Center when two men approached thethem, one weilding a handgun. Police said the man with the gun put the weapon to the woman`s chest and demanded money.

The woman grabbed the revolver and struggled with the man until the assailants ran away.

HOME BURGLARIZED WHILE FAMILY SLEPT

A Pompano Beach family awoke Saturday morning to find that their house, in the 900 block of Northwest 27th Avenue, had been burglarized during the night, police said.

The only item reported stolen was a handbag, which had been hanging on the bedroom doorknob. The purse contained car keys, a driver`s license and $225 in cash, police said.

Police said they believe the burglar entered the house through a kitchen window that had been left partially open. The burglar apparently reached the window by climbing on a nearby picnic bench, police said.

HOME BURGLARIZED

A Pompano Beach man found his home burglarized when he returned from work Friday, police said.

Taken during the break-in were a color television, a stereo cassette player and a toaster oven. The owner estimated the loss at $429.

Police said they believe the burglar entered the residence by breaking the hinges on a window.

WOMAN VICTIM OF PURSE-SNATCHER

A tote bag containing $55 and a charge card was snatched from a woman Friday while she was walking behind the Cypress Plaza, 600 S. Cypress Road, police said.

The victim said the robber came up behind her, grabbed the bag and pulled her to the ground, bruising her knees and elbows. A Pompano Beach man was arrested Friday on charges that he tried to take unpaid merchandise from the Zayre department store on North Federal Highway, police said.

Trever Albert, 19, of Northeast Seventh Terrace, was charged with retail theft and was released on a notice to appear.

Security officers at the store told police they saw Albert put a $99 radar detector in his pants, then walk through the check-out lane without paying for it.